From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 2:20: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C0637B424 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7Q9K3i30211; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 04:20:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 04:20:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: youlgok@attglobal.net Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: [Q] USER nobody In-Reply-To: <39A776DA.8BBA7153@attglobal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 youlgok@attglobal.net wrote: > I commanded this while the hard disk drive is suddenly moveing so fast : > ps -aux > and there's "USER nobody" on the list and it runs several processes > including su. > What is this USER nobody? Is this normal or someone's hacking my > computer? When I > command w or who, it displays only me. I'm the only user. > User nobody is a special user, used mostly with programs that need only minimal privileges on the machine. The 'su' means that something is su'ed TO nobody and not that 'nobody' is su'ing to another user. Can't really tell what might be going on, you're not giving us enough info to work with. Show us some of the processes and let us know what services the machine is running. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message